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Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) is the only organization in New York State specifically designed to serve young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking. Founded in 1998 by Rachel Lloyd, a woman who had been commercially sexually exploited as a teenager, GEMS has helped hundreds of young women and girls who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking to exit the industry and develop to their full potential. GEMS provides young women with empathetic support and viable opportunities for positive change.